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    • Annual hours
    • HR practice

    Extra bank holiday set for Queen’s Diamond Jubilee in 2012

    by Kat Baker 5 Jan 2010
    by Kat Baker 5 Jan 2010

    The government has confirmed that workers will be given an extra bank holiday in 2012 to mark the Queen’s Diamond...

    • Absence
    • Employee relations
    • Employment law

    Snow: employers urged not to push staff to risk life and limb to get to work

    by Kat Baker 5 Jan 2010
    by Kat Baker 5 Jan 2010

    Employers must be flexible during the harsh weather conditions and should not force staff to “risk life and limb” getting...

    • Employee relations
    • Industrial action / strikes

    North Devon hospital staff stage 48-hour strike over pay and conditions

    by Kat Baker 5 Jan 2010
    by Kat Baker 5 Jan 2010

    More than 200 hospital cleaners, porters and cooks have started a 48-hour strike in a dispute over pay and working...

    • Business performance
    • Latest News
    • Economics, government & business

    Leicestershire County Council plans to cut 650 jobs

    by Kat Baker 5 Jan 2010
    by Kat Baker 5 Jan 2010

    Leicestershire County Council has revealed it will have to cut up to 650 jobs in the next four years in...

    • NHS
    • Latest News
    • Economics, government & business

    Conservatives outline NHS proposals on pay performance and administration

    by Kat Baker 4 Jan 2010
    by Kat Baker 4 Jan 2010

    The Conservatives have pledged to cut administration in the NHS by a third, publish staff performance data, and link GPs’...

    • Acas
    • Employee relations

    Acas code on time off for union reps comes into force

    by Kat Baker 4 Jan 2010
    by Kat Baker 4 Jan 2010

    New Acas guidelines on time off for union representatives to help them undertake their union duties came into effect on...

    • Careers in HR
    • Latest News
    • Economics, government & business

    New Years Honours include OBE for BT’s HR director, Caroline Waters

    by Kat Baker 4 Jan 2010
    by Kat Baker 4 Jan 2010

    BT’s HR director has been awarded an OBE in the New Year’s honours list.Caroline Waters, director of people and policy...

    • Employee relations
    • Industrial action / strikes

    Virgin Trains ticket office staff strike

    by Kat Baker 4 Jan 2010
    by Kat Baker 4 Jan 2010

    More than 200 Virgin Trains ticket office staff are on strike in a row about plans to cut booking office...

    • Employee relations
    • Employment law
    • Latest News

    BA strike cancelled as High Court rules it illegal

    by Kat Baker 17 Dec 2009
    by Kat Baker 17 Dec 2009

    The proposed strike by British Airways cabin crew has been deemed illegal by the High Court – forcing the Unite...

    • Latest News
    • Economics, government & business
    • Job creation and losses

    Government announces £400m unemployment support package

    by Kat Baker 16 Dec 2009
    by Kat Baker 16 Dec 2009

    The government will create more than 100,000 new jobs, apprenticeships and training places for jobseekers as part of a £400m...

    • Employee relations
    • Employment law
    • Industrial action / strikes

    BA to seek an injunction to halt threatened Christmas strike

    by Kat Baker 15 Dec 2009
    by Kat Baker 15 Dec 2009

    British Airways will take Unite union to court to seek an injunction against strikes by cabin crew which are due...

    • Employment law
    • Equality, diversity and inclusion
    • Marriage and civil partnership discrimination

    Christian registrar Lillian Ladele loses religious discrimination appeal

    by Kat Baker 15 Dec 2009
    by Kat Baker 15 Dec 2009

    Lillian Ladele, a Christian registrar who claimed she faced religious discrimination after she refused to conduct civil partnership ceremonies, has...

    • Equality, diversity and inclusion
    • Latest News
    • Economics, government & business

    European Commission legal threat will accelerate passage of Equality Bill

    by Kat Baker 15 Dec 2009
    by Kat Baker 15 Dec 2009

    The threat of legal action by the European Commission could increase pressure on the government to get the Equality Bill...

    • Latest News
    • Economics, government & business
    • Sector Skills Councils

    Fashion and textiles skills council Skillfast to close after failing review

    by Kat Baker 15 Dec 2009
    by Kat Baker 15 Dec 2009

    Skillfast, the sector skills council (SSC) for fashion and textiles, will close after failing a government review of its performance,...

    • Latest News
    • Pay & benefits
    • Pensions

    Fujitsu staff set for six days of strikes over jobs pensions and pay

    by Kat Baker 11 Dec 2009
    by Kat Baker 11 Dec 2009

    Fujitsu workers have resumed their threat to strike announcing six separate days of industrial action, starting next week, in a...

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